FURNESS, WITHY & COMPANY LTD, MIDDLETON, HARTLEPOOL
| Name | RAPIDAN |
| Type | Cargo Ship |
| Yard Number | 235 |
| Launched | 22/02/1898 |
| Completed | 06/1898 |
| Off. Number | 106981 |
| Engine builder | North Eastern Marine, Wallsend |
| Engine type | T. 3cyl. 514NHP |
| GRT | 7505 |
| Length (feet) | 475.5 |
| Beam (feet) | 56.1 |
| First owner | Furness Withy & Company, West Hartlepool (launched for Chesapeake & Ohio S.S. Co. Ltd.) |
| History | 1902 HAVERSHAM GRANGE, Empire Transport Co. Ltd. (Houlder Bros & Company), Greenock |
| Fate | 23/10/1906 on fire and abandoned about 24.00S/09.00E, 800 miles from Cape Town on passage New York for Australia. |
Photo as HAVERSHAM GRANGE from collection of Kirill Vasilyev,
shown arriving at Odessa in 1906 with Russian p.o.w.'s released after the Russia-Japan war
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